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Litter   /lˈɪtər/   Listen
noun
Litter  n.  
1.
A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. "There is a litter ready; lay him in 't."
2.
Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. "To crouch in litter of your stable planks." "Take off the litter from your kernel beds."
3.
Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish. "Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay."
4.
Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
5.
The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig. "A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter." "Reflect upon that numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world."


verb
Litter  v. t.  (past & past part. littered; pres. part. littering)  
1.
To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. "Tell them how they litter their jades." "For his ease, well littered was the floor."
2.
To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. "The room with volumes littered round."
3.
To give birth to; to bear; said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt. "We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us." "The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn."


Litter  v. i.  
1.
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. (R.) "The inn Where he and his horse littered."
2.
To produce a litter. "A desert... where the she-wolf still littered."





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"Litter" Quotes from Famous Books



... would you set, (1) a leg, (2) an arm, (3) a broken finger? If a man is run over by a Hansom, what should you do? Describe an excellent substitute for a litter, when you ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 25, 1891 • Various
... fiercely. "If you don't stop its squalling, I will. I hate children. And, if I'd my own way, I'd drown 'em all like a litter o' puppies." ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... and thus out of our history. But in the evening Gui Camoys came into Bristol under a flag of truce, and behind him heaved a litter wherein lay Osmund ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... the potatoes and on top of them. When you have thus lodged your potatoes, then fill up the rest of the hole with the earth first thrown out, and, with some stuff, raise upon the hole a large heap of earth in the form of a large haycock, which you may cover with some litter or heath. By the covering of earth of five or six feet deep, your potatoes will be secured against the severest frosts, which are not known to enter over two feet into the ground. The same pit will serve you year after year, and when ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... decorations were completed, the litter of leaves gathered up, and the carpet covered with a tightly drawn linen cloth for the feet ...
— Her Mother's Secret • Emma D. E. N. Southworth


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